I took my old computer (AMD 5600+, 2GB RAM, 880gt, 250GB SATA, etc) and decided to jump and try Ubuntu for the first time. I have very very little knowledge (Red Hat when I was younger) with Linux in general.

My main desktop is Windows 7 and my plan is to use the Ubuntu computer as a file server sort of speak. I want to be able to setup back up schedules from my Windows PC to the Ubuntu PC (plan on leaving this on 24/7 to double as a Seedbox)

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You want to install and configure Samba. I will assume you are using Ubuntu Server 12.04. If you have a desktop installed there may be all kinds of GUI configuration tools you can use but let's keep this simple.

This should install Samba if you don't already have it:

sudo apt-get install samba

Now you should have the file /etc/samba/smb.conf so edit this and add these lines to the end:

I have never tried anything like that but maybe you can download samba from the Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu of course and configure it to share a folder, in which the backup would be located. Then download a backup software for Windows 7 and set it to backup on the folder you shared on Ubuntu.

I'm not sure if this is what you were asking for or even if it will work but you could give it a try I guess.